The University of Rostock has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 and 2021 period.
Rostock University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.
Contact Person is Steffen Malo.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 335 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 550 524€ and the average fee is 1 643€.
The following table shows the payments Rostock University Library has made to publishers in 2020 and 2021.
Publishers
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 243 | 345611 | 1422 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 112 | 212590 | 1898 |
| Springer Nature | 72 | 128622 | 1786 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 25 | 39855 | 1594 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 16 | 25585 | 1599 |
| Elsevier BV | 14 | 16115 | 1151 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 9 | 11871 | 1319 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 7 | 9523 | 1360 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 7 | 1516 | 217 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 6 | 5774 | 962 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 4 | 6315 | 1579 |
| RonPub | 4 | 749 | 187 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 3154 | 1051 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 3 | 5035 | 1678 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 3948 | 1316 |
| AME Publishing Company | 2 | 2828 | 1414 |
| Bioflux | 2 | 371 | 186 |
| Eurasian Society of Educational Research | 2 | 729 | 364 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 1788 | 894 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 2 | 3527 | 1764 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 2 | 1500 | 750 |
| The Korean Society of Phycology | 2 | 789 | 395 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 1071 | 536 |
| Aging and Disease | 1 | 1940 | 1940 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. | 1 | 549 | 549 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 1244 | 1244 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1875 | 1875 |
| Brill | 1 | 1583 | 1583 |
| British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery | 1 | 1299 | 1299 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 1994 | 1994 |
| Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG | 1 | 1785 | 1785 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1044 | 1044 |
| David Publishing Company | 1 | 299 | 299 |
| e-Century Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1770 | 1770 |
| HARD Publishing Company | 1 | 982 | 982 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1181 | 1181 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 1 | 1519 | 1519 |
| Press of International Journal of Ophthalmology (IJO Press) | 1 | 684 | 684 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 624 | 624 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 2015 | 2015 |
| Sciaccess Publishers LLC | 1 | 1216 | 1216 |
| Scitechnol Biosoft Pvt. Ltd. | 1 | 1332 | 1332 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 1428 | 1428 |
| The Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology | 1 | 620 | 620 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Rostock now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
